Nuclear

Nuclear may refer to:

  • Nuclear DNA

In physics:

  • Nuclear engineering
  • Nuclear physics
  • Nuclear power
  • Nuclear reactor technology
  • Nuclear weapon

In mathematics:

  • Nuclear space
  • Nuclear operator
  • Nuclear congruence
  • Nuclear C*-algebra

Famous quotes containing the word nuclear:

    “We now recognize that abuse and neglect may be as frequent in nuclear families as love, protection, and commitment are in nonnuclear families.”
    —David Elkind (20th century)

    “American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended family. Graduate students are grimly trained to be technicians rather than connoisseurs. The old German style of universal scholarship has gone.”
    —Camille Paglia (b. 1947)

    “The reduction of nuclear arsenals and the removal of the threat of worldwide nuclear destruction is a measure, in my judgment, of the power and strength of a great nation.”
    —Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.)